skin

Meaning of skin

noun
  1. The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
    He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
  2. The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
  3. The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
  4. A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
    In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.
  5. A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
    You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
  6. An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
  7. Rolling paper for cigarettes.
    Pass me a skin, mate.
  8. A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
  9. Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
    Let me see a bit of skin.
  10. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
  11. That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
  12. The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
  13. A drink of whisky served hot.
  14. Person, chap
    He was a decent old skin.
verb
  1. To injure the skin of.
  2. To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
  3. To high five.
  4. To apply a skin to (a computer program).
    Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
  5. To use tricks to go past a defender.
  6. To become covered with skin.
    A wound eventually skins over.
  7. To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  8. To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
  9. To strip of money or property; to cheat.
noun
  1. Someone with a shaved head.
  2. Member of the skinhead subculture arising in late 1960s England or its diaspora, often incorrectly associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.

Information about skin

Hyphenation of skin

skin

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • skin is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

skin synonyms

Meaning tegument:

tegument, cutis

Meaning rind:

rind, peel

Meaning hide:

hide, pelt

Meaning peel:

peel, pare

Meaning clamber:

clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, struggle, sputter

Meaning scrape:

scrape

Meaning bark:

bark

Meaning :

film, dermis, integument, pericarp, moiety, section, subsection, chafe, excoriate, graze, flay, fleece, flense, scalp, slaphead

Translation of skin

Anagrams of skin

inks, kins, Sink, sink

Words that rhyme with skin

Baskin, Gaskin, Raskin, Tyaskin, damaskin, galligaskin, gaskin, lambskin, ribskin, headskin, kidskin, leopardskin, redskin, toadskin, woodskin, Breskin, capeskin, doeskin, foreskin, gooseskin, grapeskin, moleskin, reskin, seskin, snakeskin, wineskin, calfskin, scarfskin, wolfskin, dogskin, frogskin, hogskin, pigskin, stagskin, fishskin, Diskin, friskin, griskin, miskin, siskin, whiskin, Buckskin, buckskin, darkskin, sharkskin, slinkskin, thickskin, bullskin, eelskin, oilskin

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